The next day, Ban Chao invited Murong Hao, handed the letter to him and said, "General Murong, I gave the emperor a notebook, please send someone to send me to the capital." While speaking, Gan Ying, Sha Xue and others came to Banchao's house together.

Gan Ying said: "Brother Khan Qing, don't be funny, among us, except for the second brother of the leopard head, you have a lot of ideas." Now the leopard is confused, the second brother has gone to Wusun, you hurry up and think of ideas, and I will invite you to eat and roast whole sheep when the time comes. Zhao Hanqing said: "I didn't sleep all night last night, I thought about it and thought about it, I thought of a word plan, please discuss." Everyone saw that Zhao Hanqing was speaking seriously, so they said, "Come and listen." ”

Zhao Hanqing said: "Everyone is quiet, my clever plan is a static word." Li Kaishan said: "How to interpret this static word?" Zhao Hanqing said: "Li Yi's false accusation of three things can be resolved with one static word." Gan Ying bowed his hand again and again: "Brother, don't sell Guanzi, how can this quiet word resolve Li Yi's false accusations." Shalihong comprehended: "What a static word, I think it makes sense." Everyone is quiet, please Mr. Sha to explain. Zhao Hanqing said with a straight face: "Li Yi falsely accused Changshi and many ministers in the court know about it. Now that the battle of Qiuzi is about to start, Shache wants to rebel, which shows that Changshi is important in the Western Regions, what kind of crime can this be? The emperor Shengming, seeing that Li Yi was still in Khotan for more than two months, must have guessed that he was afraid of hardships and difficulties, and was unwilling to go to Wusun, and intended to blame him. I think that when Li Yi arrives in the capital, the emperor will send someone to appease Changshi, and blame Li Yi, please rest assured. ”

Gan Ying grabbed Zhao Hanqing, scratched his armpit with his hand, and said, "What a monkey, you know in your heart why didn't you say it earlier, it made me anxious all night." Zhao Hanqing jumped away and leaned back with a smile and said: "Okay, you Gan Ying, I'm laughing to death, I also thought about it all night, it really can't be fake, it can't be fake, I didn't understand it until dawn." ”

Ban Chao suddenly opened up and said: "Thank you for breaking through the maze, it is the authorities who are fascinated, and the bystanders are clear." The emperor will be able to distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and know right from wrong. He makes a false accusation as a villain, and if I immediately tell me that I have been wronged, it means that my belly is not large. It's a good static word, let's wait and see what happens. The crowd nodded. Ban Chao is a person who is upright and open-minded, and the maze in his heart is gone, and his spirit is lifted: "All the generals perform their duties, especially to strengthen the reconnaissance of Shache, and report the situation in time." The people dispersed as they were commanded.

However, Kunlun Xiao led more than 30 people and more than 70 horses, and came to Wusun for more than one day.

This Wusun is located in the northwest of the Tianshan Mountains, adjacent to Kangju and Dawan, its place is thousands of miles, there are more than 100,000 soldiers who control the strings, and the people are mainly nomadic. The Western Han Dynasty married a princess, and the two countries became friends. The princess brought the Central Plains planting, weaving, city building, digging wells and other technologies, Wusun began to build the royal city, nearly a hundred years, the formation of nomadic and half of the situation of farming. Its royal city is about ten miles wide and is called Akiti Castle.

Kunlun laughed at Chigu City, and saw that the city wall was tall, about ten miles wide, and there were not many residents in the city, although it was daytime, most of the shops along the street were closed, and pedestrians were in a hurry. After being instructed, Kunlun Xiao and his entourage were stationed in the National Post House.

Early the next morning, the post official came to report to the Minister of State, Tian Fang, to meet the envoy. Kunlun smiled and thought that as soon as the morning dawned, the prime minister of Tian Guoxiang came to visit, and he must be a pro-Han person, and he happened to talk to him about the situation in Wusun. Hurried out of the house to greet him. When the two met, Kunlun smiled and said: "When Prime Minister Tian Guoxiang comes to visit early in the morning, he will have a lecture, please sit in the room." Tian Fang stretched out his hand and shook Kunlun with a smile and said, "Great, great, I finally saw the prestige of Han officials again." As he spoke, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

The two of them came to the house and sat down. Kunlun said with a smile: "I am also a person from the Central Plains, and I am also surnamed Tian, so I should be a member of the Zongjia." Tian Fang said: "I am a person from the Central Plains, my ancestors accompanied Princess Xie Wu to Wusun and relatives when Emperor Xuan, and then married a local woman, so I stayed in the local area, and it has been almost 200 years. I listen to the elders talk about the vast Central Plains, many characters, and prosperous industries, and I yearn for it. In the past, the Han Dynasty set up the Western Regions to protect it, and our country was also under its jurisdiction and protection. Later, the Han withdrew the capital, and Wusun had not seen the prestige of Han officials for decades. ”

Kunlun said with a smile: "The Great Han Dynasty disrupted the Central Plains because of Wang Mang's usurpation of the country. Later, people thought about the Han, Guangwu Zhongxing, and now the country is revival, and the emperor has sent the chief Shi Banchao to manage the Western Regions. The squad leader Shi has opened the southern provinces, and now the garrison is Shule, and will soon raise troops and the army west of the Han River to flank Qiuzi and Cheshi, and will restore the Western Regions and reset the capital protection. Tian Fang said: "Squad leader Shi Weizhen Western Regions, our subjects have already known about it, so we look forward to the Han ambassador coming to our country as soon as possible." Yesterday, I heard from the post official that the ambassador of Dahan had arrived, so I came to visit early in the morning. We have been looking forward to it for a long time. ”

Kunlun smiled and asked: "Tian Guoxiang has been in Wusun for a long time, and he is an official in the court, I don't know what the situation is in the court." Tian Fang sighed: "Today's saint has been erudite and talented since he was a child, but he has been on the throne for more than four years, and he has been in the harem all day long, drinking and reading and ignoring the government. When a minister asks to see him, he will try his best to ask you to answer strange questions, and if he can't answer them, he will drive you out. At present, there are mainly Xiangguo and the director of the council in the DPRK and China, and Xiangguo is old and in poor health, and it may be difficult to last. Kunlun smiled and asked: "Pay attention to national security, pay attention to national danger." I don't know who is in charge of the army in the country? Tian Fang said: "The king ignores the government and politics, and Xiangguo is old, but it is not a critical matter for our country." Matters of danger lie in the commander of the army. Kunlun smiled: "I want to hear about it." ”

Tian Fang took a sip of water and said: "There are two generals on the left and right in the court, who command the soldiers and horses of the whole country. The first king originally asked the two to contain each other so that they could use it. In the later period of the first king, they sent generals to conquer Yueshi and Qiuzi, and the two generals led the army for a long time to make meritorious contributions, one stationed in the red cottage of a hundred miles west of the royal city, and the other was stationed in the good valley city of a hundred miles east of the royal city. In order to seize the right to command the whole country, the two refused to accept each other. The first king summoned the two to reconcile, and the two refused to accept and almost used force in front of the first king. The first king was furious and prepared to cut the second army. Somehow the two men got the news, they fled back overnight, and the king was angry and died of an illness. These two did not dare to come to the royal city to send the funeral, and only sent their subordinates to send the funeral. The new king ascended the throne and the two did not come to the court, but they both gave the king a script, attacking each other to rebel. The new king couldn't, so he had to follow Xiangguo's proposal to appease the two of them separately. Recently, it was rumored that General Zuo was supported by the Yue clan and wanted to attack Wangcheng, so the people of Wangcheng were panicked, and the country was already in a state of fortress. And Xiangguo is worried, his illness is getting worse, and he doesn't know what to do? Kunlun smiled: "No wonder after I entered the royal city, I saw the shop closed and people were in a hurry." The prime minister can know that these two people have good personalities. Tian Fang said: "These two people are both protégés of the country, both are civil and military people, and the Chinese people call the two of them the two treasures of the country, but I don't know what caused the two to turn against each other?" Kunlun smiled and saw that the situation was basically understood, so he said: "Please ask the minister of state to play on your behalf, I want to see the king tomorrow." Tian Fang said worriedly: "I don't know what strange topic the king will use to embarrass the ambassador." Kunlun smiled and said: "Don't worry, he has a thousand clever plans, I have certain rules, annoying the minister of the country to take me directly to the king tomorrow." The two bowed goodbye.

The palace is located on the south street of Wangcheng, although it is not as majestic as the Han Palace, but it is also thick and broad, showing the strength of the Wusun Kingdom.

Wusun Kunmo was playing chess with the queen in the pavilion by the fish pond, and heard the guards report that the envoys of the Han Dynasty led the envoys of the Han Dynasty to ask to see the king. Kun Mo announced that he would see him. The two came to the gazebo and were about to give a salute. Wusun Kunmo waved his hand and said, "No need to be formal. The Han envoy has come from afar to work hard, please take a seat. I happen to have a problem that I ask the Han envoy to solve. Kunlun smiled: "Please give me a question." Wusun Kunmo said: "I don't know how many buckets of water in my fish pond?" Tian Fang saw such a problem, and scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously. It can be seen that Kunlun smiled's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked confident with a smile, and he was also relieved. Kunlun smiled and saw that the fish pond was quite deep, and there was a small boat, so he pondered for a while and said, "It depends on how big the king's bucket is." If the bucket is the same size as the fish pond, there is only one bucket of water in the pond. If the king bucket is only half of the fish pond, there are two buckets of water in the pond. I only heard Wusun Kunmo laugh and said: "The Han envoy is really smart. I still have a question, please ask the Han envoy to solve it. Everyone knows that the water flows downward, but there is no water at the foot of the mountain in the north of the royal city, but there is water at the top of the mountain, what is the reason? Kunlun smiled and said casually: "There is blood in the human head, and there is water in the mountain, what is strange about this natural phenomenon." The crowd nodded. Wusun Kunmo said: "What the Han envoy said is reasonable, and I still have a question for Mr. to solve." Go is from the Central Plains, this vertical and horizontal nineteen paths, painted into three hundred and twenty-four grids, I put one grain of rice in the first grid, two grains of rice in the second grid, four grains of rice in the third grid, and sixteen grains of fire in the fourth grid, so that the 324 grid can put as many grains of rice. The queen interjected: "This question is too easy, and it will be known if someone brings a plate of rice." Kunlun said with a smile: "The king is wise and far-sighted, and he is rich in five cars." This problem is called immortal calculation in the Central Plains, and the power of poor heaven and man cannot be calculated. It's like a gathering of stars in the night sky, which is impossible to count. This is the way of heaven that no mortal like us can know. "Everyone is satisfied. The queen didn't seem to believe it, so she only heard Wusun Kunmo sigh and said: "Ambassador Dahan, you are really smart, although there is no solution to this problem, but the ambassador's words have made me feel sick." Tian Fang saw that the king was convinced, Kunlun smiled, and his hanging heart was also relaxed.